Celebrate the Ladybird’s tenth birthday with these What The Ladybird Heard activities

We’re celebrating the tenth anniversary of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks’s fantastically funny book What The Ladybird Heard with these fun What the Ladybird Heard activities.

Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks’s bestselling picture book, What the Ladybird Heard, was first published ten years ago, so this July, the Ladybird is celebrating her 10th birthday, and we’re all very excited! If your little ones are fans of the crime-fighting Ladybird and her friends, they’ll love getting involved in the celebrations with these fun kids’ activity sheets.

Colour in the farm from What the Ladybird Heard

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Colour in the farm from What the Ladybird Heard
Download the colouring in activity sheet


Make these paper chains to help the Ladybird celebrate her birthday

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Make these paper chains to help the Ladybird celebrate her birthday
Download the paper chains activity sheet


Help the Ladybird spot the differences between the two pictures

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Help the Ladybird spot the differences between the two pictures
Download the spot the difference activity sheet


Find all the words in the word search

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Find all the words in the word search
Download the word search activity sheet


What the Ladybird Heard 10th Anniversary Edition

Book cover for What the Ladybird Heard 10th Anniversary Edition

This special edition of What the Ladybird Heard celebrates 10 years of farmyard fun, with glitter on every page and bonus material including a letter from Julia and never-seen-before pictures from Lydia Monks. 


If your little ones are fans of What the Ladybird Heard, they’ll also love What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday. Keep the kids entertained on their own holidays with these What The Ladybird Heard on Holiday activities.


Help Monkey Joe and the Queen’s corgis to find the bones

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Help Monkey Joe and the Queen’s corgis to find the bones
Download the maze activity sheet


Match the animals to their shapes

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Match the animals to their shapes
Download the match the animals activity sheet


Spot the ladybirds. They're harder to find than you think!

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Spot the ladybirds. They're harder to find than you think!
Download the find the ladybirds activity sheet


Practice your drawing skills and copy the picture square by square

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Practice your drawing skills and copy the picture square by square
Download the drawing activity sheet


Match each zoo animal to the noise they make. Hint: lions roar!

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Match each zoo animal to the noise they make. Hint: lions roar!
Download the animal noises activity sheet


What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday

Book cover for What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday

Those two bad men, Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh, are back! They may be in the city instead of the farm, but they haven't changed their thieving ways. In fact, they've got even more ambitious. They're planning to steal a monkey from the zoo and use it to pinch the Queen's crown. It's a pity for them that a certain crime-busting ladybird is holidaying in the very same city . . . and she's got a good idea that will ensure the dastardly pair won't get away with it!